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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seismologist here.  The real problem with this event was it was really close to Anchorage.  Most of the damage I have seen is related to ground failure/liquefaction.

Fortunately, since AK is seismically active, the building codes reflect the hazard, and to date, I have not heard of any loss of life.

This did generate some beautiful/classic surface waves across the continent.  My basement seismometer (Raspberry Shake) recorded it nicely.[/quote]

I love you.[/quote]

+1 if I was dating and had to create a profile with a list of ideals, seismologist would be listed. - totally serious. This stuff fascinates me. ‘My basement seismometer’ ....swoon.... [/quote]

Wait. Assuming that the posters responding are women, are we assuming Seimologist is a man? Seismologist, are you a man?[/quote]

I am a man.  All of the basement seismometers in NoVA are owned by men (I know who they are :).  The hardware is remarkably easy to set up.  it is from [url]https://raspberryshake.org[/url].  It costs a few to several hundred dollars.  The device works remarkably well.

As for swooning for me, I never thought my PhD in seismology could be used to pick up women.  In my generation, most seismologist were male (80+%), but today, about half of the grad students are female.  I think this is great.[/quote]

Seismologist, please tell that warming poster that earthquakes along fault lines are caused by tectonic plates shifting, not fracking and not atmospheric warming.[/quote]
I already did.  0733 was by me.  [/quote]

You're a seismologist. Sure you are.

What you ARE is a global warming denier and a proponent of fracking and fossil fuels. Basically a useful idiot for the billionaires who are poisoning this plant.

That's what YOU are. [/quote]

1) I am not a global warming denier, 2) Fracking has real issues.  
But neither had anything to do with the Alaska Earthquake.  Fracking only impacts within a few km of the the injection site.  You only frack in regions that have shale, which can contain oil/gas.  The rocks in that area are igneous and metamorphic.  There are no petroleum products in southern Alaska.  Therefore, there would be no reason to Frack there.

Similarly, there is no fracking in Central VA, as the rocks of he Piedmont are metamorphic.  The people who do the fracking do it to make money.  They are not going to do it in a place where they will not make money.

And earthquakes only may tangentially related to global warming in that in regions were large scale glacial melting (e.g., Greenland) will cause isostatic rebound (look it up, I do not feel like lecturing morons).  At the edge of the of the rebound, a lot of stress and strain can accumulate, which can trigger earthquakes.

That is not what is happening in AK.  In AK, the pacific plate is subducting under AK.  The earthquake yesterday was the result of stress transform related to the subduction.

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how dare you attack our seismologist with your nonsense. everyone knows fracking happens in shale. [/quote]

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